Vim delete blank lines

Question

What command can I run to remove blank lines in Vim

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I tried a few of the answers on this page, but a lot of them didn't work for me. Maybe because I'm using Vim on Windows 7 (don't mock, just have pity on me :p)?

Here's the easiest one that I found that works on Vim in Windows 7:

:v/\S/d

Here's a longer answer on the Vim Wikia: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Remove_unwanted_empty_lines

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This function only remove two or more blank lines  put the lines below in your vimrc  then use  d to call function  fun  DelBlank      let  s       let l   line         let c   col          g   n  2   d    let     s    call cursor l  c  endfun map  lt special gt   lt leader gt d  keepjumps call DelBlank   lt cr gt

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This works for me    s   s   n  gc

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g   s   d   begin of a line  s  at least 0 spaces and as many as possible  greedy    end of a line   paste   command -range   DBL   lt line1 gt   lt line2 gt g   s   d   in your  vimrc then restart your vim  if you use command  5 12DBL it will delete all blank lines between 5th row and 12th row  I think my answer is the best answer

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v   d   or   g    d   or         cat -s

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how to remove all the blanks lines    s  n n  M g    do this multiple times util all the empty lines went gone  how to remove all the blanks lines leaving SINGLE empty line    s  n n n  M M g    do this multiple times  how to remove all the blanks lines leaving TWO empty lines AT MAXIMUM     s  n n n n  M M M g    do this multiple times    in order to input  M  I have to control-Q and control-M in windows

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work with perl in vim      perl -pi -e s   s    g

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This worked for me     s    a-zA-Z0-9   n  ig   It basically deletes all the lines that don t have a number or letter   Since all the items in my list had letters  it deleted all the blank lines

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g    d    g will execute a command on lines which match a regex  The regex is  blank line  and the command is  d  delete

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The following can be used to remove only multi blank lines  reduce them to a single blank line  and leaving single blank lines intact    g      n     d

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Press delete key in insert mode to remove blank lines

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Found it  it s   g   s   d   Source  Power of g at vim wikia     Brief explanation of  g    range g pattern cmd       This acts on the specified  range   default whole file   by executing the Ex command cmd for each line matching pattern  an Ex command is one starting with a colon such as  d for delete   Before executing cmd      is set to the current line

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How about    g     t    d

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If something has double linespaced your text then this command will remove the double spacing and merge pre-existing repeating blank lines into a single blank line  It uses a temporary delimiter of     at the start of a line so if this clashes with your content choose something else  Lines containing only whitespace are treated as blank    s   s  n n       r g   g   s   d    s

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